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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-21
LOVE IN THE TREASURY.
Innocent Flirtations in the Corridors of q
Government Building.

Innocent F1irtations in the Corridors of q
Government Building.
Love laughs at Treasury regulations
as we'll as locksmiths. Some time ago
the chief clerk of the Treasury Depart
ment issued an order prohibiting
clerks from visiting and promenading
the corridors during business hours.
Prior to this regulation the Treasury
girls spent considerable time in visiting
each other and in walking leisurely
around the corridors with favorite
masculine clerks. For time the new
order effectually suppressed the abuse
aimed at, as all persons found visiting
and walking about idly were reported
to the chief clerk. The order still pro-
duces good results, yet many
male and female clerks, with
disposition for Irritation, have
devised plan by which they
may enjoy a promenade of mile with
out being detected by the minions of
the chief clerk. The Treasury build
ing is about three hundred by two
hundred feet in dimensions. 1t is
quadrangular in form, with a central
wing stretching from east to west,
thus converting the building into a
double quadrangle. Two elevators
located in distant corners of the build
ing carry all corners from floor to floor.
The length of the corridors of each
story extended in straight line for
full quarter mile, and as there are four
stories we have full mile of corri~
doris, forming, with their tiled floors,
frescoed walls and vaulted ceilings, a
most charming promenade. To be
found lettering on any particular floor
is to insure report and repri-
mand, and repetition of the of
tense brings admonition of suspen-
sion or discharge. Some of the girls
of the Treasury are smart, as well as
pretty, and have devised a plan by
which they may join each other and
their beaus without fear of the chief
clerk and his sentinels. Meeting at
an appointed hour and place, these
couples will promenade the entire
length of the corridors of one floor,
and then. taking separate elevators so
as to avoid detection, will proceed to
the next floor, and leisurely continue
their "spooning" while they make the
circuit of its corridors. This is re
peated until they have traversed the
corridors of the four floors, when each
will repair to his and her proper divi-
sion, using both elevators for this pur-
pose, having walked mile. killed
half hours time, and had '.lovely
time" while so engaged. - Washington
Cor. Philadelphia Ledger.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-21
NATURAL INSTINCT.
How 1t Is Developed i'm Birds, Fowl
Beasts and Insects,

How 1t Is Developed in Birds, Fowls,
Beasts and Insects.
Chickens. two minutes after they
have left the egg follow with their eyes
the movements of crawling insects
and peck at them, Judging distance
and direction with almost infallible
accuracy. They will instinctly appre-
ciate sounds. readily running toward
an invisible hen hidden in a box when
they hear her ''call.'' Some young
birds also have an innate, instructive
horror at the ght of hawk and of
the sound of its voice. Swallows, tit
mice, tomtits and wrens, after having
been confined from birth, are capable
of flying at once when liberated on
their wings have attained their neces-
sary growth to render flight possible.
The Duke of Argyle relates some
very interesting particulars about the
instinct of birds, especially of the
water ousel, the merganser and the
wild duck. Even as TO the class of
beast / find recorded: Five young
polecats were found comforta-
bly, imbedded in dry, withered
grass, and in a side hole
of proper dimensions for such a
larder, were forty frogs and tx toads,
all alive, but merely capable of sprawl
ing little. On examination the
whole number, toads and all, proved
to have been purposely- and dexterous-
ly bitten through the brain" Evident
ly the parent polecat had thus provid-
ed the young with food which could be
kept perfectly fresh, because alive, and
yet was rendered quite unable to es-
cape. This singular instinct is like
others which are yet more fully devel-
oped among insects class of animals
the instincts of which are so numerous,
wonderful and notorious that it will
be, probably, enough to refer to one or
two examples. The female carpenter
bee, in order to protect her eggs, ex-
cavates, in some piece of wood,
series of chambers, in special order
with a view to peculiar mode of exit
for her young; but the young mother
can have no conscious knowledge of
the serious action subsequently to en-
sue. The female of the wasp (sphex
afford anotser well-known, but
very remarkable example Of
complex instinct closely
related to that already mentioned in
the case of the polecat The female
wasp has to provide fresh living ami
NAL food for her progeny, which, when
it quits its egg, quits it in the form of
an almost helpless grub, utterly unable
to CATCH retain or kill an active, strug-
Cling prey. Accordingly the mother
insect has not only to provide and
place beside her eggs suitable living
prey, but so to treat it that it may be
helpless, unresisting victim. That
victim may be mere caterpillar, or it
may be a great, powerful grasshopper,
or even that most fierce, active and
rapacious of insect tyrants. a fell and
venomous spider. Whichever it may
be, the wasp adroitly stings it at the
spot which induces, or in the several
spots which induce, complete para1-
ysis as to motion, let us hope as to
sensation also. This done, the wasp
entombs the helpless being with its
own egg, and leaves it for the support
of the future grub. -Fort1aightJy Re-
UieaO.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-21

Under the constitution adopted in
Holland in 1914, women landowners
and taxpayers are entitled to vote on
the same terms as men, and during the
past seventy-three years any qualified
woman who desired to vote has done so
without opposition. By the recent ex-
tension of suffrage, 175 900 persons
have been enfranchised. Many of them
are women, and large numbers of
women now regularly attend the cleo
tions. -Indtanapotis Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-21

The full-grown hog has forty-four
teeth, of which twenty-eight are pre-
coded by pig teeth
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-04-07


AT ihe preset, writing We are sorry 10
learu that Mr.. Baker Wilson . worse.
Regular meeting 81 the .. Y. =. on
Friday evening ., . o'clock.
Porter Newell. oiLondoaaerry expects
10 remove 10 THE village shosi ly 10 occaps
The house Of his 500. II. A. Newell
-oas hasdrrd balioa hole bouquets
slll I've gives 10 holders al reserved ssstA
:. The orers nsr, Tuesday evsning.
Cards are 90, ior tbs nsu.4gs VI Mr.
q. Hss.si freedley aad Miss Lydia ".
West ia Galway church rh,lsdeiphis. on
Thanasy. April ii,b. The many iriends
81 Mr. Frseals. 70 this sxinisy ~sa hia
nsch Icy.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-04-07
STATE NEWS

Charles Il, Haynes, aged sixteen years
aud son Of L. NJ, Haynes, well-to- dc
farmer OF Wilmington, took his fathers
horses last week aud having received a
load of butter and eggs If the merchants
TO carry as freight, went to North Adams,
twenty miles distant and instead of de
livering the goods as ordered, it is said,
sold them, took the money and disappear
ed, without saying what bis future ad
dress would be. He was last seen In
Brooklyn, and it is supposed be has gone
to st. Louis. This is the second time he
has left home.
Mrs. Mary A. Coleman of Jamaica was
brought before U. s. Commissioner Royal
Tyler Thursday on charge OF violating
the postal laws in using for the payment
Of postage on letters deposited by her in
the postoflice at Jacksonville postage
stamps which had previously been used
and cancelled She was held to bail in
5000 for her appearance at the May term
OF the United States court to be held at
Windsor.
At West Pawlet, Friday night James
Kelly, employed iua slate quarry, was
killed by large stone, which slipped
while it was being hoisted aud struck him
on the head
The law Office OF A. q. Whittemore Of
Burlington was robbed Saturday OF $40 10
money and $4,000 or $4,000 in bonds,
Of which $500 was available. Mrs. Eunice
Walch was arrested at midnight charged
with the theft The money was found on
her person but the box containing the pa
pers is not yet found T.. G.. Davis is also
arrested on suspicion. The act was com
mitted while Mr.. Wbittemore was in an
ed joining office.
W. A. Clark, who stole between $1,000
and $1,000 from the postofiice in New
York, is a son OF Andrew Clark, station
agent Of the Delaware aud Hudson rail
road at Casteton. which position he has
filled for about ten years. W. A. Clark
was u conductor on the Delaware and
Hudson road for several years aud resio ed
at Comstock's N. Y, from which place mis-
father removed to Castletop
Rev. s. l., Speare Of Middlebury is go
ing to Europe this sumner and Rev. Or
White Of Boston will supply the Congre
gatioual pulpit during Mr. Spe.re's ab
sence.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-04-07

The Logging business Is completed.
aud. though work WAS hindered by the
desp sno~, moot Of the mills are sell
stocked
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-04-07
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a. u Adams. who bss bens rnnni5g .
steam min 10 lanaics The pas. viaier Is
back agate.
We learn thsi Nevtoa Lskir. who has
been living 10 Manchester, sill return 10
IOWA and carry on the farm Of bis father
10 lsv, Justin Bart
-Hsceni thsss have settled ihe snos
and IL besins 10 look little more like
''geniie spnng. ETHEREAL mildnefs, ke
soSpyirlK
The Logging business Is completed.
aud. though work Was hindered by the
deep sno., moot Of the mills are sell
stocked.
DIR Haskins has returned 10 town and
will engage 10 practice again.
The listers have commenced their ar.
nusl ronnds. and no doubt will ind lois
d money to pat 10 the list,
Ralph Smith has returned from the
west, where be has been for several weeks
on q visit.
The maple sugar business this year.
TINS far. has been a failure here But very
fes have commenced. and those have
made no sugar 10 amount to anything
We learn that Joseph HILL who has
been clerk at the Arlington House for
some time, died al Cohoes. NY. last week
while on q viSi. to his sister who resides
there. .#
The next communication Of lied Noun.
tain Lodge. No. G3, r. a A. H., viii be
held at Masonic Hall. Friday evening.
April sth. II is eIpeeted there win bel
work on the second degree.
The old veteran mail carrier from East
Arlington to this village, Amos knights,
has carried the mail on sleigh this winter
Is days in succession. He is man over
80 years old aud has driven over horse. !
over 80 years old, every morning and after.
loon without a buffalo robe over him, aud
'ery seldomIworo an overcoat.
AT the annual school meeting OF Dist
10. . the following officers were elected |
or the year ensuing. O. A Bundy, Clerk
nd Treasurer; L. G. Woodwork, Collec-
or; II. s. Wilson. +. Killian. Chas. A.
'oombs. Prudential Committee; ID. q. |
barney, o. f. Adams, G. H. Parsons, Au
itors. A tax OF 20 cents on the dollar Of
he grand list was voted to pay the expen-
es OF the school for this year.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-04-07

"a severe cold. ending 10 hard, dry
cough, caused me to pass many sleepless
nights coughing until il seemed as though
my hesd would burst told my friends
that must die sas advised TO ir, DR..
.sets arsolFs Cough kilo. First doss
was = great surprise; slept all night IN
peace. I, cured me night up Persuaded
my friends 10 try !, aud i, hs. cured every
cess. Mxchsli H. Moody. South Had
iey. Mam For sal. ny al druggsts
Price 25c., zoe. sad 81 per bottle
Dr.. Seth Arnold's Pills are mild aud
rentie 10 action.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-04-07
Stats Of Ohio. City OF Toledo,
Inoae nopotv -

Lucas County, SIS
Frank J. Cheney makes an oath that be
il the senior partner Of the firm OF I. y.
Cheney 4 Co. doing business in the city
OF Toledo, county aud state aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum Of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls CaiaTh Cure.
FRANK J. CHIMNEY.
Sworn TO before me and subscribed in
my presence. this 9Th day OF Dec. 1886.
t-l A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Stalls Ca,arrh cure - taken IN
ternslly aud acts directly upon the blood
aud mucns surfaces OF the system. Send
for testimonials. free.
4. j. CHENEY 4 co, Toledo, o.
sev- Sold by Druggists. 10 cts.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-04-07

EAir. sosfY y DE i.ss ceurh cnv ~ NO.. o.
clIxxy SgiFNuR soar hssls s1l& ssAaisfes z.c
CfEntx coEx Ern0vrs lin. caHus fessans. assA
ETlls HAIR wsisgIE pyf--snsxs A nsvsr. No.
rgrs ro0rnAcsf paeps care ,s ! hlnusr. gh~-
pIAxs nHrunsrlc PilLS are . ssv cart, ~
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-04-07

When Bahy w. ssaA. W gave her csssa~ta
whsn shs ~Ns Child. sh. cred fer cssior,~.
wher abe became hiss. she elung 10 cAsiaris,
When shs hsd cliidrvn, shs gave them ossiefiA.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-04-07

Plies, reaches, ants, hcd.bugs, rats.
mice. gophcrs, ehipmunks, cleared on, by
Rough on Rats" i5c.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-04-07

Nervous weakness. Dyspepsia fmpo
sepce. SERIAL Debility, CARED BY "Wesl''
He<h. Remover 81
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-26
Tactics Adopted by the Army.

The militiamen will be interested in
knowing that the following tactics have
been adopted by the United States army !:
In forming column of twos from column
OF files the leading file should march three
yards to the front and halt.
Mark tine from backward march" is
not authorized or practiced.
Mark time should not be executed dur
ing an oblique.
Question: Is it correct in posting a
relief to march it at "secure arms" with
bayonets unfxed?
Answer: Bayonets are not necessarily
unfxed while marching a guard at "secure
arms" Whether they shall be fixed or
unfxed can be decided by the commanding
officer as may seem proper to him under
the circumstances.
O.: Is it necessary for the commanding
officer to command 3cease firing" before
"posts," after firing by battalion or rank,
having brought his command to "carry
arms" after fire" and all the pieces being
unloaded?
A.: 1t is the opinion OF the tactical de-
partment that the command "cease firing"
posts" should be given. While the COM
mand cease firing" may be superfuous in
the special cases cited, it is believed to be
hAC PuA toeE VI tHS idCtlCst Al the Interest OI
simplicity, to have but one command to
announce that the firing is over, and that
officers and non-eommissioned officers will
return to their places in line.
O.: Marching in line, arms at "trail''
command fright turn being given, would
the men bring their pieces to fright shoul-
der" at preparatory command or would
they remain at "trail %
A.: Arms should remain at "trail.
G.: What is the correct manner of hold
ing the saber by battery sentinel when
| challenging, receiving the countersign on
holding communication with any person
A.: In all the cases mentioned the senti-
mel should take the place of ..guard," ex-
cept that the left arm ia extended by the
side and the feet are together.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-26
superstitious Business Men.

An observing Broadway street-car
conductor tells of the odd way in which
one passenger. business man whom
he brings downtown every morning,
deports himself. As soon as he gets his
seat he grabs two pins from his coat
lapel and sticks one into the cushion
on both sides of him. He goes through
the same programme every morning.
If he gets into car and has to stand
he holds q pin in each hand. He does
it for luck, so he himself explained TO
the conductor. This man Is an infiuen-
tial officer in one OF the biggest corpora
tions in New York, and everywhere he
is regarded as conservative, intelli-
gent man.
Il have tried to break myself of this
superstition for years, he said to the
conductor one day when he seemed to
be in the mood for conversation and he
and the conductor had the car to them
selves for . long distance 1t is silly
practice, Of coarse / realize that; yet
somehow If ever fail to have my two
pins with me and don't come down
Town hedged in on each side, everything
goes wrong. I keep IL mp because I'm
nervous ii dom Z
There are some men who will not ride
up or down town except with the same
conductor daily. Not that they love
any special conductor particularly. but
for the blind reason they believe luck
attaches to regularity.
One Broadway dry-goods merchant
always leaves ! street-car In which BIZ
any chance he may find q red-haired
woman or child. and be uniformly looks
sharply for this sort Of h0odO0 b.
tore M takes seat A<sc York 1snse&
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-26
ITO be Contin,ssd.I
Cure for Most Dangerous wounds.

An intelligent and trustworthy cor
respondent has sent US the following:
The smoke of wooden rags is a cure for
the most dangerous wounds. A lady
of my acquaintance ran a machine
needle through her finger. She could
not be released till the machine was
taken to pieces. The needle had broken
into her finger in three pieces, one of
which was bent almost double. After
repeated trials the piece were extracted
by pincers, but they were very strongly
embedded. The pain reached to the
shoulder, and there was every danger
of lockjaw. The wooden rags were put
over the Goals, and she held her finger
over the smoke, and in very short
time all the pain was gone and it never
returned, though it was some little time
before the finger healed. This is but
one of many instances of such cure,
some of them taking place after several
days from the time of the wound. Let
woelen rags be kept sacredly and al
ways at hand for wounds The smoke
and stencil will fill the house, perhaps,
but that is trifie when the alternative
is lockjaw, or even a long, painful
sequel to wound. Another instance,
was the wound made by an enraged
cat, which tore the flesh from the wrist
to the elbow. and bit through the fleshy
part of the hand. One ministration oi
the smoke extracted all the pain. which
had been frightful. Boston Tras-
script.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-26
Reclaiming Waste Lands.

IN MS new report ON the work of the
geological survey, Professor Powell esti-
mates that there are 100000 square miles
Vi coast lands in this country made value
Itss oy lnundations, which, by the use OF
proper means, can probably be placed
asu'oig The richest agricultural lands in
ans seountry His department is now study
Ig tne swamp lands and marshes of the
x1ltle xAsiahtle coast to ascertain the practica-
olnty OF retaining uhem. In view of the
pruspect that all the agricultural land now
asIlaoie IN the United States win be occu-
pe1 oy 1893, the recent surveys of waste
AaIus .ai IN the Mississippi valley, along the
a Aslahtic coast, in western New York and
~ ~ Uther states, are of special importance
4. me New York state survey reports that
y perfectly feasible to turn the great
SSwanps in Niagara, Erie, Orleans and
uenesee counties, which are now waste
aau malarial tracts, into healthful and
Faosperous farms. Twenty-Five thousand
acres In the Oak Orchard basin alone, now
subject TO constant overflow, can, accord
w 70 our state survey, be thoroughly re-
~ slalnled at moderate cost. Waste tracts
nAe those which exist in the western part
- snis state, in parts of the Mississippi
ss .a1ey, and in the now worthless district
- 4,VVO square miles in North Carolina,
"e.ween the James river and Albemarle
'0'na' were drained in northern Europe
sselturles ago, and are now scenes OF human
,,asaustry, ,sAy and among the most fertile por-
uons Of the continent.
!, For fully 100 years the drainage OF the
oeleey meadows, embracing some l2,UUu
aastes' and now notorious for coarse hay,
<~rrz IN -
men OF 1ssa pesh ene PEI nssor prSssso roh the
state :. geologist, has had plans prepared for
lne carrying out of this scheme, and as the
ss state has sanctioned the work, it IL be-
nesed measures win be taken early in the
spring to drain these meadow lands. This
Mork II urged as much for sanitary pur-
poses as for the agricultural value OF the
Improvement.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-26
Congress and PIeuro-Pneumonia

Chairman Hatch, Of the house commit
tee on agriculture, received from Com
missioner Colman reply to the resolu-
ton offered a few days before by Mr..
Swinburne Of New York, in which the COM
missioner sets forth comprehensively the
dIfncnlties met in the attempt to extirpate
or control the pleuro-pneumonia scourge
In the present state of the law and with
the machinery at hand, and re-enforces hfs
recommendations previously made for
more heroic methods. The commissioner
argues that the quarantine of infected
cattle, even if it could be efficiently done,
does not prevent the spread of the con-
tag1on, except in isolated cases, and that
the losses from restrictions in trade
are greater than those caused by the dis
ease itself. He has therefore recommended
and does now recommend, as the only
measure which will extirpate the plague
and prevent both the direct and indirect
losses, that wherever an infected herd is
discovered all exposed animals be sIauph-
tered, the premises thoroughly disinfected.
and the owner compensated for the loss to
which he is subjected for the protection of
the public. He urges upon the committee
the necessity of legislation giving TO the
department power to carry out the
measures required for extirpating pleuro-
pneumonia, untrammeled by state laws or
state authorities if it is expected to
promptly suppress this disease. At present
he can only cooperate with the state
authorities in accordance with state legis-
lation in the matter. In some states there
are no laws on the subject, and in all the
rest they are wholly inadequate for the
prompt extirpation of the plague. There
is little doubt, however, that strong con-
stitutional objections will be raised in CON
gress to such legislation as the commits
sioner recommends.-Rura New Yorker
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-26

have often wondered that the magazines,
in their quest for novelty in illustrations, have
not turned their attention to Ireland The
green isle is a mine for the artist and the
writer. understand, however, that one OF
the English magazines is now preparing
series of articles ON the subject, and that one
of our own chief periodicals is also gathering
material to the same end.
A Holyoke Mass thread manufacturershas
received from Leeds a large skein OF black
silk which has laid in a pond since the Mill
river disaster, which wrecked his mill, with
Others. i'm 1874 This souvenir of the flood was
found Sept. s, and although it has lain In the
pond twelve years the silk retains its color,
has good gloss, and the thread Is strong,
which shows the almost indestructihle nature
of the material
At recent literary entertainment given
by the students of Grant uni rerslty, az
Athens. Ga, Miss McLaine was to recite. AZ
she walked upon the stage she was IN appa-
rent good health, and was giving her recita-
tion successfully, when suddenly she stopped.
nlaced her hands over her face and stood
silent. She was led from the stage, and then
a was ascertained that she had become totally
blind New York Sun.